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About family, friends and backyard: Antes de Metal is an invitation to build a bridge, which connects the experience of darker skin in the Zona Norte neighborhoods of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Baixada Fluminense, and the processes of creating an audiovisual project on the streets, which comes straight from Morro do Urubu. A portrait, another portrait of a favela dweller.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Solange and Gustavo, mother and son, lose a family member to the virus. As they deal with grief and face this new reality, the relationship between the two shudders and wounds are reopened, leading them to question which of them was responsible for bringing the virus into their home.